In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

• F7“the appropriate judicial body” means whichever of the court or a tribunal has jurisdiction under section 4;

• F13...

• F8“arbitration agreement” means an agreement in writing to submit to arbitration any question arising under this Act or any agreement to which it applies;

• “the court” means—

  1. a

     in relation to England F14..., the county court F12... or, where the parties have F9entered into an arbitration agreement that applies to the question to be determined, the arbitrator;

  2. b

     in relation to Scotland, the sheriff having jurisdiction where the protected site is situated or, where the parties have so agreed, the arbiter ;

• “local authority” has the same meaning as in Part I of the M1Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960;

• “mobile home” has the same meaning as “caravan” has in that Part of that Act ;

• “owner”, in relation to a protected site, means the person who, by virtue of an estate or interest held by him, is entitled to possession of the site or would be so entitled but for the rights of any persons to station mobile homes on land forming part of the site ;

• “planning permission” means permission under F1Part III of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 or F2Part III of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997;

• “protected site” F11does not include any land occupied by a local authority as a caravan site providing accommodation for gipsies or, in Scotland, for persons to whom section 24(8A) of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 applies but, subject to that, has the same meaning as in Part I of the M2Caravan Sites Act 1968.

• F10“a tribunal” means, where the parties have entered into an arbitration agreement that applies to the question to be determined and that question arose before the agreement was made, the arbitrator; or, in other cases—

  1. a

     in relation to England, the First-tier Tribunal or, where determined by or under Tribunal Procedure Rules, the Upper; and

  2. b

     in relation to Wales, a residential property tribunal

In relation to land in Scotland, any reference in this Act to an “estate or interest” shall be construed as a reference to a right in, or to, the land.